The Illinois Prairie
Community Foundation awarded MCGS a $1,000 grant towards a new
reader/printer for the Stevenson-Ives Library. The grant,
along with generous private donations, enabled MCGS to purchase the
new equipment which was recently installed.
Atlas Indexing Project
An
ambitious publishing project, co-sponsored by the McLean County
Museum of History, has been completed! It is a compilation of the 1866 Map of McLean
County, and the 1874, 1895 and 1914 Atlases of McLean County. The 1866
index was completed in 1994.
The
addition of this publication will be of great benefit to both
genealogists and historians for use in researching people who lived in
McLean County. The index is key to the value of the publication.
McLean
County has 30 townships. Some of the
Atlases also have lists of patrons. Volunteer indexers have
recorded names, section numbers and number of acres and then
compiled the data. Most townships have 36 sections with one to 10 or
more property owners per Section.
For more
information, email
Bill LaBounty.
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Cemeteries
There is always another cemetery to transcribe!
MCGS has published the results of several cemetery transcriptions.
Please view our
Publications list.
MCGS volunteers have completed their walk of the
Hudson Cemetery and are now compiling their findings. Contact
Judith Myers for more information.
Entrance to Evergreen Cemetery 1916
